Understanding Vision Impairment: Expert Insights & Personal Perspective
Date: 14/03/2024 (AEDT)
Register Here: https://lms.optometry.org.au/course/view.php?id=720
Provider: Eyes For Life Canberra
Activity Outline
Join us for an enriching lunchtime seminar bringing together an esteemed occupational therapist specialising in low vision care and a remarkable client who has journeyed through life with vision loss.
Gain invaluable insights into the unique needs and challenges faced by individuals with low vision, as our expert offers professional guidance and strategies. Understand the personal narrative, gain first hand understanding and empathy for the lived experience of navigating the world with vision impairment.
Don't miss this opportunity to broaden your knowledge, foster empathy, and enhance your ability to support individuals with low vision in their daily lives.
Learning Objectives
- Better understanding of the benefits of supports such as occupational therapists
- Better understanding the time it takes to process a diagnosis and living with deteriorating
- Better understand the broad range of supports and services provided by Eyes for Life Canberra
- Better understand why it is important to encourage patients to seek help as soon as possible when glasses and surgical interventions are no longer viable alternatives
Max CPD hours awarded: 1.5
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Understanding Vision Impairment: Expert Insights & Personal Perspective |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1.5 |